Plowing with a lifted truck?

[scottydosnntkno]

Heres my pics of how i modified my Hiniker mount. Stock the drop sides were 3/8" steel held on with Grade bolts, we went with 1/2" steel and grade 8 bolts to make up for the extra moment forces being dropped down.

I believe we put a 5" drop on it wich puts the bottom of the brackets right at 9-3/4" which is within the Hiniker specs of 8.5"-11"

Stock:


Modified:


Modified from the front:


My truck has a 4.5" suspension lift on 37's

[gtmustang00]

Looks good but damn does it hang down low.

[jasonv]

Originally Posted by nighthawk117

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Originally Posted by jasonv
Also note that the higher your truck is, the harder it will be to see anything in front of you.

Been plowing with a lifted S.D. / Boss v-plow for many years now and the visibility is far better than a stock truck !! I have never had a single problem with the truck or the plow/mount, it now has 170k miles on it.

Last I checked, truck hoods are OPAQUE. You can't see through it, and lifted, its a HUGE block to sight. The more you lift the truck, the farther ahead of you things need to be in order to be seen. This is simple physics.

Get somebody to take a profile picture of your truck with you in it, and draw a line from your eyes, contacting the hood at the highest point, and to the ground. See all that stuff behind the point it contacts the ground? That's what you can't see. Now modify the picture to lower the truck, notice how that area gets smaller?

[scottydosnntkno]

i have no issues seeing when plowing. thats what the stakes are for on the plow.

Plus, being up higher you can see OVER traffic and anticipate whats going to happen. Its so weird driving in my wifes jeep afterwards or riding in a friends car, it feels like you're in a go kart and can't see anything.